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Oak Island Light. The Oak Island Lighthouse is located in the Town of Caswell Beach near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina. It sits next to the Oak Island Coast Guard Station on the east end of Oak Island in Brunswick County looking south out at the Atlantic Ocean. Featuring 16 LED lights which produce four, one ...
Coordinates: 33°48′04″N 77°56′49″W. Frying Pan lightship and light tower. The Frying Pan Shoals are a shifting area of shoals off Cape Fear in North Carolina, United States. Formed by silt from the Cape Fear River, the shoals are over 28 miles long and resemble a frying pan in shape. [1] They provide excellent fishing. [2][3]
Federal Point Light (earlier light described in 1836 with eight lamps rebuilt 1836) was a lighthouse at Federal Point on the east bank of Cape Fear at Fort Fisher constructed in 1866. A third ...
In use. 1899-Present. Coast Guard Station Oak Island referred to locally as the Oak Island Coast Guard Station (OICGS) is located in the Town of Caswell Beach on Oak Island in Brunswick County, North Carolina. A part of the Cape Fear region, the station is in the United States Coast Guard 5th District which is charged with ensuring the safety ...
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell (since 1949 home to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly) and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse.
While Oak Island was formed from two existing towns, St. James began with one man’s vision. Developer Homer Wright sought to create a golf community and purchased 2,500 acres of land off N.C ...
Fans of popular History Channel TV show "The Curse of Oak Island" have mistakenly been emailing the Brunswick beach town with treasure hunting tips.
Bald Head Lighthouse, known as Old Baldy, is the oldest lighthouse still standing in North Carolina. [2] It is the second of three lighthouses that have been built on Bald Head Island since the 18th century to help guide ships past the dangerous shoals at the mouth of the Cape Fear river.